Lascari

Lascari (Zip Code 90010) is 140 km. distant from Agrigento, 92 km. from Caltanissetta, 195 km. from Catania, 123 km. from Enna, 197 km. from Messina, 66 km. from Palermo, which province it belongs to, 268 km. from Ragusa, 253 km. from Siracusa, 165 km. from Trapani.

The municipality has 3.312 inhabitants and its area is 1.039 hectares for a density of population of 318 inhabitants per square kilometre. It rises on a coastal hilly area and is 76 metres above sea-level.

The Town Hall is in piazza Aldo Moro, tel. ++39 0921-427216 fax. +39 0921-27216.

Lascari has an agricultural production of vegetables, olives and citrus fruit. Every year in August is organized the famous festival of the lemon. In the handicraft it is present iron working.

Lascari derives from Greek Làskaris and means soldier. The first inhabited place has medieval origins and was placed in a neighbouring locality, Sant'Eufemia.
The present small town dates back to the XVIII century and originally it belonged to the commune of Gratteri. Now it is a self-governing commune.

In the artistic field there are ruins of an old castle, a medieval work, built to defend the village from exsternal attacks.